Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 13 August 2026
Last Updated: 13 August 2026
Website: https://jhargram.in

Jhargram.in ("Jhargram.in", "we", "us", or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting personal information handled through our website.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, store and protect information when you visit or use Jhargram.in, create an account, submit content, contact us, subscribe to our newsletter, submit a business listing, comment on an article, or otherwise interact with our services.

This Privacy Policy should be read together with our Cookie Policy and Terms & Conditions.

1. Applicable Law

Jhargram.in intends to handle personal data in accordance with applicable laws of India, including, to the extent applicable and in force from time to time, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 ("DPDP Act"), the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 ("DPDP Rules"), the Information Technology Act, 2000 and other applicable laws and regulations.

The DPDP Act establishes a framework governing the processing of digital personal data and provides rights and obligations concerning such processing. Its provisions have been notified with staggered commencement dates. Accordingly, references in this Privacy Policy to statutory rights and obligations are subject to the provisions that are legally effective at the relevant time.

2. Information We Collect

Depending on your interaction with Jhargram.in, we may collect:

A. Account and registration information

When you create an account, we may collect:

  • Name or display name

  • Email address

  • Mobile number, where requested

  • Username

  • Password or authentication information

  • Profile information

  • Account preferences

  • Login and security information

Passwords should be stored using appropriate security mechanisms and should never be submitted to us through ordinary email.

B. Contact-form information

When you contact us, we may collect:

  • Name

  • Email address

  • Telephone/mobile number

  • Subject

  • Message

  • Attachments or information voluntarily provided by you

We use this information to respond to enquiries, requests, complaints, business enquiries and other communications.

C. Business-listing information

If you submit or claim a business listing, we may collect and publish information such as:

  • Business name

  • Business category

  • Business address

  • Telephone number

  • Website

  • Business email

  • Opening hours

  • Photographs

  • Social-media links

  • Description and other business information

You should only submit information that you are authorised to provide.

Information intended to appear in a public business listing may become publicly accessible.

D. Comments and user-generated content

If you post a comment, review, photograph, listing, article, event, announcement or other content, we may collect information associated with that submission.

Depending on the feature, your display name and submitted content may be publicly visible.

Do not publish private, confidential, financial, authentication, identity-document or other sensitive information in public comments or submissions.

E. Newsletter subscriptions

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we may collect your email address and subscription preferences.

We use this information to send newsletters, updates and other communications for which you have subscribed or which are otherwise permitted by law.

You may unsubscribe using the unsubscribe mechanism included in the relevant communication.

F. Technical and usage information

When you visit Jhargram.in, our servers and third-party services may automatically receive information such as:

  • IP address

  • Browser type

  • Device type

  • Operating system

  • Language settings

  • Referring page

  • Pages visited

  • Approximate geographic location

  • Date and time of access

  • Interaction and usage information

  • Diagnostic and security information

3. Google Analytics

Jhargram.in uses Google Analytics to understand website traffic, visitor behaviour and website performance.

Google Analytics may collect information such as users, sessions, approximate geographic information, browser and device information and identifiers associated with cookies. Google's documentation states that its default web implementation uses a first-party _ga cookie to distinguish users and sessions.

We use Analytics information primarily for aggregated and statistical purposes, including:

  • Understanding which pages are visited

  • Measuring website traffic

  • Improving website content

  • Understanding technical performance

  • Measuring user engagement

  • Identifying trends

We do not intentionally configure Google Analytics to send directly identifying information such as passwords, payment-card details or similar sensitive information.

Google also requires publishers using Analytics to disclose its use and data practices.

4. Google AdSense and Advertising

Jhargram.in may use Google AdSense and other advertising technologies to display advertisements.

Advertising providers may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, device information and similar technologies to provide, measure or improve advertising.

Google states that AdSense may use cookies for advertising, including relevance, reporting and avoiding repeated advertisements.

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on a user's previous visits to Jhargram.in or other websites, subject to applicable settings and law. Google requires publishers to disclose these practices in their privacy policies.

Users may be able to control personalised advertising through Google's advertising controls and other applicable browser or device controls.

We do not knowingly provide Google or other advertising partners with information such as passwords or other authentication credentials for the purpose of identifying individual users.

5. WhatsApp Links

Jhargram.in may provide links or buttons that allow you to contact us, businesses or other parties through WhatsApp.

When you select a WhatsApp link, you may leave Jhargram.in and interact with WhatsApp or another third-party service.

Your use of WhatsApp is governed by WhatsApp's own terms and privacy practices. Jhargram.in does not control information collected directly by WhatsApp.

6. Google Maps

Jhargram.in may embed Google Maps or provide links to Google Maps for locations, businesses, attractions or other places.

Map functionality may involve requests to Google's servers and may allow Google to process technical information associated with the request.

Your interaction with Google Maps is subject to Google's applicable terms and privacy policies.

7. Facebook and Instagram Embeds

Jhargram.in may embed or link to content from Facebook or Instagram.

Embedded content may cause your browser to communicate with the relevant third-party platform even if you do not directly visit that platform.

Those platforms may collect information according to their own policies.

Jhargram.in does not control data collected by Facebook or Instagram through their embedded services.

8. How We Use Personal Data

We may use information to:

  • Create and administer accounts

  • Authenticate users

  • Provide website features

  • Respond to enquiries

  • Process business listings

  • Moderate comments and submissions

  • Publish authorised user-generated content

  • Send newsletters and requested communications

  • Provide customer support

  • Analyse website traffic

  • Display and measure advertising

  • Maintain website security

  • Detect spam, fraud and abuse

  • Prevent unauthorised access

  • Investigate violations of our Terms & Conditions

  • Comply with legal obligations

  • Respond to lawful requests from authorities

  • Establish, exercise or defend legal rights

  • Improve our services

  • Perform other purposes disclosed at the time of collection or otherwise permitted by law

9. Consent and Other Lawful Grounds

Where applicable law requires consent, we will seek consent before processing personal data for the relevant purpose.

Where permitted by applicable law, information may also be processed for other legally recognised purposes, including providing requested services, complying with legal obligations, preventing fraud or security incidents, and other permitted uses.

Where processing is based on consent and applicable law provides a right to withdraw consent, you may request withdrawal of consent.

Withdrawal of consent does not necessarily affect processing that occurred lawfully before withdrawal.

10. Sharing and Disclosure

We may disclose information to:

  • Website hosting providers

  • Cloud and infrastructure providers

  • Email and newsletter providers

  • Analytics providers

  • Advertising providers

  • Security and anti-spam providers

  • Website development and maintenance providers

  • Payment providers, where applicable

  • Professional advisers

  • Government authorities and law-enforcement agencies where legally required or permitted

  • Courts and regulatory bodies

  • A purchaser, successor or acquiring entity in connection with a merger, acquisition or transfer of the website or business

We do not sell personal information merely because you visit Jhargram.in.

11. Publicly Visible Information

Information submitted for publication may be publicly accessible.

This includes, depending on the relevant feature:

  • Comments

  • Reviews

  • Business listings

  • Business contact information

  • Event information

  • Photographs

  • Articles

  • Usernames or display names

Before submitting information, consider whether you are comfortable with it becoming publicly available.

12. Data Retention

We retain information for only as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, legitimate operational requirements, security, dispute resolution, legal obligations or other lawful purposes.

Account information may be retained while an account remains active and for an appropriate period afterward.

Public content may remain available after an account is closed where necessary for legitimate editorial, archival, legal or operational reasons, subject to applicable law.

13. Data Security

We implement reasonable technical and organisational safeguards intended to protect personal information against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, destruction or loss.

No internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and should immediately notify us if you suspect unauthorised use of your account.

14. Children's Privacy

Jhargram.in does not intentionally seek to collect personal data from children in circumstances prohibited by applicable law.

Where applicable law imposes additional requirements concerning children's personal data, we will comply with those requirements.

15. Your Rights

Subject to applicable law and the relevant provisions in force, you may have rights concerning your personal data, including rights relating to:

  • Access to information about processing

  • Correction of inaccurate information

  • Erasure of personal information

  • Withdrawal of consent where applicable

  • Grievance redressal

  • Other rights provided by applicable law

Requests may be subject to identity verification and applicable legal limitations.

16. Grievances and Privacy Requests

For privacy questions, complaints, correction requests, deletion requests or other privacy-related matters, contact:

Jhargram.in
Website: jhargram.in
Privacy Email: [INSERT PRIVACY EMAIL]

If a Data Protection Officer, Consent Manager or other designated privacy contact is legally required for Jhargram.in, the applicable contact details will be published here.

17. International Processing

Some third-party service providers may process information using infrastructure located outside India.

Any such processing or transfer will be subject to applicable law and the terms governing the relevant service.

18. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

The updated version will be published on this page with a revised "Last Updated" date.

Where required by law, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent for material changes.

19. Contact

For privacy-related matters:

Jhargram.in
Website: jhargram.in
Email: [INSERT EMAIL ADDRESS]

Legal notice: This document is a website-specific compliance draft, not a substitute for advice from an Indian privacy/technology lawyer. It should be reviewed against Jhargram.in's actual technical configuration, hosting provider, WordPress/plugins or other CMS, Google Analytics configuration, AdSense settings, cookie-consent mechanism and business structure before publication.